Thabo is a qualified Chartered Accountant (SA) having completed his articles with Ernst &Young. He then worked for Rand Merchant Bank in the Structured Finance division, initially as a credit analyst assessing blue chip corporates then moved to the Leveraged Buyouts division as a specialist credit analyst and then as a dealmaker focusing on property finance. Some of the larger transactions Thabo was involved in included Hemingways Shopping Centre in East London (Value R1bn) and Georgiou Group purchasing of property portfolio (Value of R645m). In 2009 Thabo Co-Founded Royal Fields Finance, a SME Finance company. Currently serves on the credit committee of Royal Fields Finance. Royal Fields has to date disbursed over R400m to about 350 SMME’s. Thabo has been with Nthwese Developments since 2011 and has helped to build the property portfolio to over R2bn to date